• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1994.07a
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• pp.419-421
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• 1994

A CRU (Customer Remote Unit) for KODAS(Korea Distribution Automatic System) is presented in the paper. This equipment works as a terminal unit for the Load Control and the AMR(Automatic Meter Reading). It is composed of control, drive, input, display, and communication parts. A CRU calculates and memorizes the active power, time-of-use, and demand by the pulse from watthour meter for AMR. It also transfers the data to Center Control System. It can measure current, voltage, and power factor by adding the simple circuit. For load control, It receives the necessary informations such as the load control periods, modes, and time intervals. It controls the load until the stopping commad comes. The system reliability has been proved using a prototype.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.10-15
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• 2022

Currently, some urban gas companies are conducting their own gas AMI meter verification projects, along with the demonstration of gas AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) meters under the supervision of the government. There are many positive factors such as remote meter reading and ensuring user gas safety through AMI meter installation, but on the other hand, there are also many problems such as battery discharge, expensive price, and decreased reliability of remote meter data. This study sought various improvements in gas AMI meters along with prevention of serious civil disasters by preemptively eliminating structural safety problems and potential risks from gas leakage due to the expansion of gas AMI meters, and it is expected that this study will contribute to the government's policy to advance gas AMI.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.69-71
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose a new communication protocol for remote metering in electric power meters, also define necessary functions for it. The new protocol is based on the international metering protocol. IEC 1107, 62056, DNP 3.0. This protocol has 4-layered architecture, which has physical. data link, lower application, and upper application layers. For each layer, definitions and detailed functions are introduced. The protocol will be used for communication between the meters and the metering computer(or AMR system). KEPCO (Korea Electric Power Corporation) plans to adopt this protocol as a part of a new metering standard for electric power meters.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.737-747
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• 2012

Recently, in order to support automatic meter reading for conventional metering devices, an image processing-based approach of recognizing the number meter data in the captured meter images has attracted many researchers' interests. Numerical character segmentation is a very critical process for successful recognition. In this paper, we propose an efficient numeric character segmentation method which can segment numeric characters well for any metering device types under diverse illumination environments. The proposed method consists of two consecutive stages; detection of number area containing all numbers as a tight ROI(Region of Interest) and segmentation of numerical characters in the ROI. Detection of tight ROI is achieved in two steps: extraction of rough ROI by utilizing horizontal line segments after illumination enhancement preprocessing, and making the rough ROI more tight through clipping utilizing vertical and horizontal projection about binarized ROI. Numerical character segmentation in the detected ROI is stably achieved in two processes of 'vertical segmentation of each number region' and 'number segmentation in the each vertical segmented number region'. Through the experiments about a homegrown meter image database containing various meter type images of low contrast, low intensity, shadow, and saturation, it is shown that the proposed numeric character segmentation method performs effectively well for any metering device types under diverse illumination environments.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.26 no.12
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• pp.143-150
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• 2021

In the recent power industry, a change is taking place from manual meter reading to remote meter reading using AMI(Advanced Metering Infrastructure). If such the power data generated from the AMI is recorded on the blockchain, integrity is guaranteed by preventing forgery and tampering. As data sharing becomes transparent, new business can be created. However, Ethereum blockchain is not suitable for processing large amounts of transactions due to the limitation of processing speed. As a solution to overcome such the limitation, various On/Off-Chain methods are being investigated. In this paper, we propose a interface server using data sharding as a solution for storing large amounts of power data in Etherium blockchain environments. Experimental results show that our power-data processing system with sharding method lessen the data omission rate to 0% that occurs when the transactions are transmitted to Ethereum and enhance the processing speed approximately 9 times.

• Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.332-337
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• 2008

The supply of digital homes has been increasing but digital home services which meet consumer needs under the various conditions have not identified. The purpose of the study was to investigate the residents' characteristics living in digital apartments with comparison of their innovativeness toward technology. Residents who lived in two apartment complexes equipped with fundamental digital home services(Level 1 service) were selected to conduct the survey. A total of 500 responses were used for data analyses. Responses were classified into three groups based on their innovativeness toward technology for data analyses. The results of the study showed that residents' socio-demographic and housing related characteristics differed according to their acceptance trait of new technology. Early adopters and early majority were younger, higher income, and more educated than late adopters. Also, they were more likely to be renters and consider installation of digital home services before they moved in. Respondents who had higher innovativeness tended to experience more positive life changes after using digital home services and possessed more and many digital appliances. Remote control and remote meter reading service were the most preferable features among digital home services without no differences in three groups.

• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.1-10
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• 2009

The supply of digital homes has been increasing but digital home services which meet consumer needs under the various conditions have not identified. The purpose of the study was to investigate the residents' personal characteristics living in digital apartments with comparison of their trait of innovativeness toward technology. Residents who lived in two apartment complexes equipped with fundamental digital home services (Level 1 service) were selected to conduct the survey. A total of 500 responses were used for data analyses. Responses were classified into three groups based on their innovativeness toward technology for data analyses. The results of the study showed that residents' sociodemographic and housing related characteristics differed according to their acceptance trait of new technology. Early adopters and early majority were younger, higher income, and more educated than late adopters. Also, they were more likely to be renters and consider installation of digital home services before they moved in. Respondents who had higher innovativeness tended to experience more positive life changes after using digital home services and possessed more and many digital appliances. Remote control and remote meter reading service were the most preferable features among digital home services without no differences in three groups.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.5B
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• pp.511-516
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• 2011

In this paper, we present the AMI System mentioned as one of the main application areas in the M2M. To enable the AMI, it is essentially required to install, deploy and manage all the devices. Especially, Device Management technology is considered to be suitable for these AMI due to its advantages like, easy installation, remote FW/SW upgradeability. We investigate the fundamental operation of the DM and the design of the DM in the AMI is presented.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.2265_2266
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 가정에서 사용되는 검침 가능한 유틸리티의 원격검침을 위한 전자식 원격검침기의 구현과 지그비 및 LabVIEW를 활용한 모니터링 시스템 구축을 목표로 한다. 가정에 공급되는 유틸리티의 검침방법은 대부분 검침원에 의한 개별방문을 통하여 이루어지고 있어 방문검침 방식에 따른 민원발생과 검침데이터의 정확성 문제, 가정보안 문제 등으로 인하여 효율적으로 검침이 이루어지지 않는 실정이다. 이러한 문제점을 해소하기 위해서 지그비 및 LabVIEW를 활용하여 원격검침하게 되면 검침 데이터에 대한 신뢰성문제, 인건비 절약, 가정 보안문제가 해결될 뿐만 아니라 U-city구축에도 일조를 할 것으로 기대된다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 지그비를 활용한 무선원격검침 시스템 구축과 LabVIEW를 이용한 데이터 모니터링 환경을 구축하여 향후의 검침 지능화를 위한 토대를 마련하였다.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.591-593
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• 2007

This paper is to cluster the AMR (Automatic Meter Reading) data. The load survey system has been applied to record the power consumption of sampling the contract assortment in KEPRI AMR. The effect of the contract assortment change to the customer power consumption is determined by executing the clustering on the load survey results. We can supply the power to customer according to usage to the analysis cluster. The Korea a class of the electricity supply type is less than other country. Because of the Korea electricity markets exists one electricity provider. Need to further divide of electricity supply type for more efficient supply. We are found pattern that is different from supplied type to customer. Out experiment use the Clementine which data mining tools.